Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] [verb] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nuclear energy will grow considerably but from a low base accounting for some 3% of total energy demand by the year 2000 from programmes underway in Brazil , Argentina and Mexico . |
| 2 | Christie , 32 , confirmed : ‘ I have now made a definite commitment to compete for another two years . |
| 3 | There is a general objective to look around — not a specific objective to look for some particular thing . |
| 4 | We got specific money , in other words , the government flagged up that in the first year , there were going to be infrastructure costs , and so there was a specific allowance made for that , and we 've been recruiting gradually , not all at once , over a period of time , as the numbers of people coming into the community care system rise , we 've been recruiting new staff there . |
| 5 | There is a specific diet to follow for each of the four weeks . |
| 6 | Civil penalties include a triple damages award for any person whose business or property is harmed as a result of the violation . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , his attempt to move international relations from the study of relations between nations to the study of ‘ world society ’ ( leaving aside the essential vagueness of this latter idea ) , did represent a progressive problem shift for all those interested in the elephants rather than the little creatures . |
| 8 | There is also a political cost to pay for such ostensibly benevolent reforms . |
| 9 | He has told the court that he has spent the best part of the last two and a half years preparing for this joust . |
| 10 | The Fire Brigade Union has requested one and a half weeks pay for each year of service , plus the annual bounty payment . |
| 11 | This schlocky international movie , photographed in eye-straining colour , cashing in ( figuratively speaking ) on the craze for James Bond pictures , was shot in three languages with a different director credited for each version — Stanley Prager ( English ) , Dan Ash ( Italian ) and Giorgio Gentil ( Spanish ) . |
| 12 | This period around 1967 was the time of the big change-over in the airline business from piston engines to jets , so it was clear that the programme I had selfishly pursued for my own good was in fact a proper course to follow for all Ops inspectors if they were to continue to be able to do their work effectively . |
| 13 | Had the employer known of the pregnancy at the date of appointment he would not have appointed the woman and the employer would also have dismissed a male employee engaged for this purpose who required a leave of absence at the same time for medical or other reasons . |
| 14 | The figures could be displayed in a specified graphical format OR a separate print-out made for each representative including only relevant cells . |
| 15 | The skipper was preparing to take her out to a second rendezvous arranged for that night when the lookouts saw the grey canoe with a lone paddler . |
| 16 | ‘ Humanism is a positive philosophy — it believes human beings have a moral responsibility to care for each other . ’ |
| 17 | However , with further events of a similar nature planned for this year , such a compromise would be difficult to arrange . |
| 18 | Our focus here is on information received by the enterprise from the external environment ; but a similar dilemma exists for any type of information within the firm . |
| 19 | Notice in particular that we have not used , anywhere in our analysis , the " shape " of the tubes T and S , so we can expect a similar analysis to hold for all homoclinic orbits to the origin which occur in the Lorenz equations . |
| 20 | A similar argument holds for any other commodity we try to tax . |
| 21 | Interference conditions can be quickly checked with a simple expression to test for any of the four possible interference states : remote , touching , interfering , and inserted . |
| 22 | Then , if this happened again , it would be a simple thing to account for each animal . |
| 23 | The committee clerk sent out a simple questionnaire asking for such information as : How many times was planning permission given in conflict with the policies of a Local or Structure Plan ; How many times was permission given against the advice of planning officers . |
| 24 | Although there are some irregularities , Smart seems to have had a fixed task allocated for each day and to have kept to it . |
| 25 | At one time , it was envisaged that the Yale Sixth Form College at Wrexham would also be incorporated into the Institute to form a comprehensive establishment catering for all those over the age of sixteen . |
| 26 | Certainly , in at least one of the case study districts , Islington , which will be discussed in Chapter 5 , decentralization of local authority services under a socialist regime made for some civic similarity with the regions of Italy which received mental health reform most warmly . |
| 27 | You 're supposed to be taking things easy , and I come home after a day 's work and a beastly journey hoping for some restoration and some intelligent company . |
| 28 | If , for instance , there has been a cold wind blowing for several days and the water temperature has been well down for the time of year , then the wind ceases and the sun brings a sudden warmth to the water , you can almost guarantee that the carp will begin to feed . |
| 29 | It is almost impossible to keep such a tight regime going for any length of time . |
| 30 | Under the new system , producers of packaged goods would pay a three centimes levy for each package . |